Further to threats from Sadam Hussein oil well fires burn south of Kuwait City
Further to threats from Sadam Hussein oil well fires burn south of Kuwait City

Sadly, the journal entries for the last week of September 1990 were lost years ago due to a computer malfunction. During this time, I was busy as a District Councillor attending the Contract Services Committee and Southern Area Councillors meetings and sitting in on the Housing Committee.

I was also a participant in my party SLD Discussion Group, and leading the next effort to publish a region-wide FOCUS Liberal Democrat newsletter.  I was a grateful guest of Nigel and Lynne Smith for a dinner date and at fellow Independent Tory Councillor Ross McKay's housewarming as I tried to get him on our side.

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My children had an 'own clothes day' at Kimbolton School. Elsewhere,  Iraq invaded the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait, which French President Mitterrand called  a violation of international law, and a U.S. warship boards an Iraqi-flagged tanker bound for the port of Basrah. Saddam Hussein stated his willingness to strike first and confirmed his intention to damage oil fields in the region if attacked. He claimed that US will repeat Vietnam experience as the UN Security Council voted 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq. The deposed emir of Kuwait had addressed the UN General Assembly and then visited the White House.